The Mana Pool Needs Creatures!

We really appreciate the feedback we’ve been getting from everyone on the Deck List Poll, which is still waiting for more votes, by the way. If you haven’t given us answers there yet, please do so. But in the meantime, we have another request for all of you. We want creatures!

Our request is quite simple. In the comments below, give us a creature. Not only that, but tell us why you’ve chosen it. We don’t care what sort of criteria you use. Most favorite creature, biggest and scariest, worst monster ever, dude you’ve always wanted to play but never had a reason. Whatever you want! Just be sure you tell us why you picked this creature in particular. This is a different sort of experiment than we usually do, so thanks for helping us out.

And finally, a few rules. Nothing silver-bordered (sorry, no Un-sets allowed!), and no repeats. If a creature has already been mentioned, please come up with something else. That’s it! Let us know what you’ve got in the comments below. And keep coming back every day, we’re going to have lots more experimental questions over the next week!

36 Comments

why? i love artifacts and this transmuter is an artifact that reeks of combolicious possiblities. all the while it was legal in standard, i only play transmuter decks with magister sphinx and inkwell leviathans. of course i loose all the time

I would like to nominate my main man, Grotesque Hybrid. It is one of my favorite creatures ever, the first foil I ever owned, and a solid card in general. His abilities are great and he is a force to be reckoned with. Thank you, and good night.

Hmmm…Tough question. Guess I’d have to give props to Stonehewer Giant for being awesome. Not only is he a reasonably sized guy for a reasonable cost, his ability is also unbelievably good. He does well by me in my Kemba deck. Hell, he practically enables the deck whenever he comes out. I salute you, Stonehewer Giant.

I started playing in Shards block, Conflux was the first set I ever bought cards for, and Mirror-Sigil was the first rare I opened (so yes, my first rare was mythic…unfortunately my crack-a-pack luck hasn’t been that auspicious since then).

I still love the guy, even though I’ve never effectively been able to build a deck around him – I was too new at the game when I first got him, and haven’t gotten around to it sense.

Still he’s awesome and a lot of fun. (And works well with Followed Footsteps, eh eh?)

First rare I ever got in a booster I bought for myself. It started my interest in the game (It’s a rare but it seems terrible! What’s the catch?) So I started exploring what I could do with it. Turns out nothing, but nevermind. I’ve collected that single card ever since. So yeah. I have almost 100 One with Nothing, it’s always a laugh when somebody opens my tradebinder and sees the first 5 pages or so stocked with it.

The thing I like about it is that there are multiple ways to build around it – get land in your graveyard, or get land in your opponents graveyard (or a mixture of both). It is such an interesting card.

Why? Well, back when I started playing, future sight just came out. Suddenly, people in my playgroup started showing up with the mighty tarmogoyf. Just to show those sacks, I built a deck around this guy, and it smashed faces. BFF with Kulrath knight and fate transfer. And really, there is this charm to dropping a 5/5 trampler on the second turn. Just to punish that turn 1 birds/elf.

Because when it comes down to it, Believing you are amazing is more important than actually being amazing, Yes I’m talking about The Scornful Egotist.

What better creature can there be. I defy anyone to tell me that they did not look at this beauty for the first time and think, “What in the name of all that is- …”. He’s amazing in so many ways, the Combo potential, The Shocked horror on someone’s face when they path your Morph guy, only to find the Egotist grinning at them.

Look at the art! He doesn’t even care he’s just smashed his way out of a Spiderstonecrab and is now decidedly unprotected and bad-ass, That my good sir is balls to the wall, (It’s ok it’s a spelunking term)

He may not be Big, He may not be flashy, but god damn it, He’s awesome and I adore him.

Why cause the keldons are Spartans on powerthirst!! If you ever want to read about pure badassery read the fight between them and phyrexia! Plus I have the warlord in a r/w weenie deck, combos well with pennon blade.

He’s pops out cheap and colorless, then turns into whatever you need him to be. And I cannot stress enough the importance of his repeatability. Something else comes out that’s better? Woop, next upkeep, I get a copy.

I only started playing right at the end of Alara block because my friends were playing one day. They handed me the green-white intro deck and said “Here, try this.” Enlisted Wurm come out and ruined everybody. The cascade effect always seemed to follow Enlisted Wurm’s flavor text in that he has the cascade mechanic because he needs someone or something to direct the Wurm’s anger, some sort of army is unleashing the wurm upon some hapless foe. Another random first card to join the ranks.

It was one of the few rares from Legends that I had opened and I used it over and over and over and over again through the years to mostly annoy my friends. That funky artwork and the weird restriction on it made it interesting, too. I was bummed to see it reprinted, since mine was not as unique, but it still worked to annoy. It probably helped me really understand how powerful blue was, since it could bounce almost anything. I should probably dig this one back out and start using it again….

Okay so I know that its not the best creature ever but the idea to me is just really cool. Red is my favorite color and among red’s creatures dragons are my favorite. Dragon mage is different then other dragons since he is not just some stupid flying dragon thing but a mage. Also there I always loved his flavor text “you will bend to my will with or without your sanity” as it was always cool. Overall dragon mage is probably my favorite card and has been for a while.

Hands down, I have to go with my favorite card in the game, Reveillark. I never even played it with the Mirror Entity combo. It’s just so good for getting more and more advantage as a game goes on. When 3 people end up all turning on me and the only way they can find to kill me is by decking me by Astral Sliding my own Mulldrifters…yeah, good stuff.